Monday, September 29, 2014

These Second Life Snapshots are Utterly Fierce (and Photoshop-Free)

SL artist Loverdag recently took a trip to Red Dragon [SLURL] and came back with quite a few gorgeous, Photoshop-free pictures for her Flickr gallery, including the one shown above. While their snapshots may be free of post-processing, they do take advantage of the incredibly popular Chouchou Cinematic HUD, which provides virtual photographers with a letterbox overlay for their Second Life snapshots without needing to process the images through any 3rd party software. I addition to being a prominent recurrence across much of Loverdag's gallery, a quick Google Image Search will turn up some jaw-dropping SL photography made possible with the Chouchou HUD, so it should be clear why so many SL artists seem to favor it.

Be sure to visit Loverdag's Flickr gallery for more screenshots in her Red Dragon set, as well as quite a few other breathtaking (and Photoshop-free) pics.

Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart on Twitter, Iris Ophelia in Second Life) has been writing about virtual worlds and video games for nearly a decade, and has had her work featured on Paste, Kotaku, Jezebel and The Mary Sue.